Nuclear Stewardship:
Lessons from a Not-So-Remote IslandThe United States set off three underground nuclear tests between 1965
and 1971 at Amchitka Island, which lies in one of the country's most seismically
active regions.John Eichelberger, Jeff Freymueller, Graham Hill
and Matt Patrick

Political
SceneTaking Aim at
a Defense BudgetThe president’s budget is right to focus on national security.
But that focus should not leave geoscience out in the cold.David Applegate and Margaret Baker

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THE COVERScientists on the Yucca
Mountain Project used this tunnel-boring machine, or TBM, to create an underground
laboratory within Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, called an Exploratory Studies Facility.
For the past two decades, the Department of Energy has been investigating how
well nuclear waste can be contained in Yucca Mountain. The TBM, which is 25 feet
wide, began its five-mile journey in September 1994. “Day lighting” occurred in
the spring of 1997. Courtesy of DOE.Read story.